NY Times: Members of the union that represents machinists at the Boeing Company will begin voting later this week on a tentative agreement that includes a 15 percent raise over four years, details of the new contract showed Tuesday.

Approval of the tentative deal, reached Monday night, would end a 52-day strike and allow Boeing to resume airline production and the development of a new plane, nicknamed the Dreamliner...

Negotiations, which were held only briefly during the strike, resumed last week in Washington, D.C. with assistance from a federal mediator. At the time, Boeing executives hinted that an agreement might be in the works.

Oh if only a federal mediator could produce results like this with the Screen Actors Guild...